You had me until this... "Apple, ferchrissakes, have toppled Microsoft and IBM and dominate the computer business!" Should be... "Apple has morphed into a mobile phone and music player maker who still has a 'prestige' line of computers, of which...

Kennedy Space Center is not too far away and, if you're lucky, there might be a launch scheduled. https://www.kennedyspacecenter.com/ Also check out the Microsoft Store at the mall. http://content.microsoftstore.com/detail/Thefloridamall...

I already cancelled my Rhesus Chart Amazon order on Feb. 23 and switched to Barnes&Nobel even though it cost a little more. Fuck Amazon. I only use them if I absolutely cannot get something anywhere else....

We live in a world where technology has reduced the expectation of privacy and the political systems are moving to make it illegal for you to bypass that tech to achieve any privacy. I can see in the future trying...

We, in the U.S., still speak the King's English (King George III), thank you very much. http://www.livescience.com/33652-americans-brits-accents.html "The Patriots and the Redcoats spoke with accents that were much closer to the contemporary American accent than to the Queen's English. It...

The US is a "worse case scenario" for what happens to a nominally "progressive" western democracy as it is gripped by the wealthy class. We call it the "elite consensus" around here where both the Democratic and Republican political parties...

I keep a landline because they are mostly impervious to disasters. Hurricane hits (I live in Florida) and the power goes out, the landline still works. For the same reason I'd keep my bicycle when they start selling flying cars....

Ah, there was a sci-fi novel with the same scenario (and dammit, I can't remember the name). Pharmaceutical Co. developed the immortality drug. It was sooooo expensive only the rich could afford it. Everyone else was promised that the price...

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Open questions: Wasn't the sleeper supposed to be a servant, not rival, of the black pharoah? Or did it escape it's bonds? Considering the aquatic themes, undead allusion to Jesus, implied deep one cultists, dreams, songs, and especially the sleeping in the pyramid (via colder war), isn't the sleeper Cthulhu? Great old ones like cthulhu are generally portrayed as several orders of magnitude less dangerous than outer Gods like shub niggurath, hastur, and nyarlathotep -- which makes sense if a rebellious Cthulhu is the sleeper, but not if it's the "greater threat" in the US. Is stross redefining the pantheon...

Final question: how does ymir fit into this? (Or cthonians wargods, come to think of it) If high class entities can eat the information from space time itself, and ymir was (judging by effort put into summoning) lower class than the sleeper, hastur, or black pharoah, how come the home dimensions for those horrors aren't just as shriveled? And that again brings up the deep ones and cthonians -- why would they be letting idiot monkeys go around summoning the end of reality, as with niflheim? What's going on -there- that humans are able to get away with this shit?...

A lot of theories (debunked) about Bob and Moe's baby being a saviour. Here's my contribution: Their baby will become the Eschaton. He will teleport 90% of the population away, lowering the amount of souls/minds on Earth, without the need for a mass slaughter, thereby ending Case Nightmare Green. This will force you to write another Eschaton book, to my great pleasure. :)...